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This article reports on the convention of the American Sociological Association. The article further refers to a sociologist who is so much a part of normal society that today one of the stores is tendering a fashion show for his wife to indicate her status equal to the wife of doctor, politician or any other example of social adjustment to be found at a convention in New York. According to the author, the paper presented at the convention can only represent a tiny sample of all the chaff that is annually struck up by this vast communal threshing crew. People owe many of these papers to the broad tolerance of the American academic community which apparently approved and even financed them without one man in a supervisory position having the discourtesy to suggest that the matter under study was self-evident. There seems also to be developing a sociology within sociology which promises much. Its best sample is a paper which indicates that persons who fail to answer sociological questionnaires by mail come from homes where their parents habitually beat them.

This article presents a report from the president of the American Sociological Society (ASS). Preparations are now under way for the 1947 annual meeting of ASS. The tentative arrangements are to meet in New York City, from December 28-30. Specific plans will be announced at the earliest possible moment in order to facilitate the largest possible attendance on the part of the members. According to the author, this is an appropriate time to review the progress that has been made in the major fields of sociological interest and in the discipline as a whole. With this in view, the author is considering inviting a number of members of the Society who have been particularly interested in one or another field of sociology to give an account of the present state of knowledge in their respective fields of interest in the form of a comprehensive paper which will be circulated early in the year among their colleagues having a similar interest, with the object of inducing the latter to participate in a panel which would subject this field to rigorous analysis and clarify the problems and possibilities that exist.

This article reports on the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society (ASS), 1949. The forty-fourth annual meeting of the American Sociological Society will be held in New York City, December 28-30, 1949. The program is oriented toward the presentation of research and the analysis of problems, whether substantive or methodological, that lie near the frontiers of contemporary sociology. The paper "The American Soldier" will be subjected to analysis and evaluation as a research contribution in one meeting, while another will consider the censuses of 1950 as potential sources of data for social analysis. It is peculiarly appropriate that this meeting devoted to the frontiers of sociological research should be held under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The headquarters of both the ASS and the Rural Sociological Society will be the Hotel New Yorker, though ASS's own day meetings will be held in the rooms of the Manhattan Center. The program for the meeting and the proposals of the Reorganization Committee for the future development of the Society will be sent to all members in October.

The article presents supplementary information guide to graduate departments of sociology. The California State College is situated at Long Beach, California. The chairman of the Sociology and Social Welfare Department is George W. Korber. Here masters' degrees are offered in sociology. The City College of the City University of New York is situated in New York, New York. The Chairman of its Department of Sociology and Anthropology is William Howton. Here degrees are offered in sociology in M.A. Ph.D. is offered by City University with City College participating. The 6th World Congress of Sociology was held in Evian, France from September 4th to 11th, 1966.

This article highlights the Student National Sociological Conference held at the Commodore Hotel in New York City on December 27 and 28, 1935. The students appearing on the program represented the several colleges and universities, including the University of Cincinnati, College of the City of New York, University of Michigan, Miami University, Duke University, Vassar College and University of Missouri. The papers and research projects presented were scholarly pieces of work and proved both interesting and valuable. The conference offered a splendid opportunity for students to meet and exchange ideas on sociological problems.

The author suggests the use of anxiety as an indicator in psychological and sociological studies. In a study at Canisius College in New York, one of the variables considered was the score obtained by a group of Freshmen on Taylor's Manifest Anxiety Scale. It developed in the earlier stages of the investigation that the score achieved by this Catholic group was significantly higher than that achieved by the original standardization group. For the psychologist, this difference in score meant that a greater number of his students evidenced behavior which might cause concern. He had reason to check the applicability of the scale to his particular group. Then, if this score was actually meaningful, there was cause for alerting counselors to possible difficulties. To the sociologist the same difference in scores, I would imagine, would raise other questions. One might be interested in the social origins of the two groups, perhaps in the social structure of the schools concerned, or perhaps in the changes in general anxiety level over the eight or ten years since the test was first standardized. The fact that anxiety seems to be related to the discrepancy between actual behavior and an ideal of behavior, set up perhaps, by a social convention; and seems to be, in addition, a product of what the individual perceives as both the actuality and the ideal, is not at variance with the Freudian view. For if the ideals of individuals are in anyway societally determined, then it could be argued that they are to some degree manifestations of the super-ego, itself the outgrowth of the demands and prohibitions of parents, teachers, superiors, etc.--or in short--society.

The article presents information related to the field of sociology. Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales of the National University of Mexico is publishing a series of little books under the general title, "Cuadernos de Sociologia." These compact little volumes give to North American sociologists an intimate glimpse of the thinking, teaching and research of their colleagues in Mexico. Carnegie Corp. of New York has provided $260,000 grant payable over a two-year period, to the Social Science Research Council for area training fellowships and travel grants. Carnegie continuing its support of the national area fellowship program set up by the Council in 1947. $50,000 has been granted to New York University toward support of an experiment in educational method in the Graduate Division of Public Service. Pi Lambda Theta, National Association for Women in Education, announces two awards of $400 each, to be granted on or before August 15, 1950, for significant research studies on "Professional Problems of Women." The 1950 annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society will be held on April 22 and 23 at Boston University.

The most prominent research investigations of leadership relations currently making scientific progress appear to be sociometric studies. But despite their contributions, sociometric studies seem to be seriously hampered, in terms of integrating diverse patterns of leadership, by an inadequate theoretical orientation. The adequacy of this orientation stems primarily from the inability of "socio-criteria" to comprise a system of related leadership categories but also from the proponents' questionable claims that: leadership is based on harmonious group support; the correct research method to determine leadership is to proceed by means of "respondent authorship" through the "reality test"; and leadership positions should be determined only by sociogram inspection which not only becomes progressively more difficult as the size and scope of the community increases, but also denies the validity of qualitative treatments. To develop an alternative research treatment which would eliminate the limitations of the sociometric approach and provide a possible basis for a more generalized theory of leadership relations, a New York rural community, comprising about 4,000 residents, was studied in 1946-1947.

The article presents information related to sociology. It states that the second International Congress is to be held in Paris, France, in 1950. Although the exact date has not been set, the Congress will follow the sessions of the International Psychiatric Congress. Professor H. Donnedieu de Vabres is Chairman of the Committee on Organization. The Congress will be particularly concerned with international consideration of research, with the problem of a distinctive methodology for criminology and with the proposal of establishment of an International Center of Criminology. Sociologist H. Donnedieu de Vabres is Chairman of the Committee on Organization. It also states that financial resources and leadership of Carnegie Corp. of New York, one of the largest foundations in the U.S., are being increasingly devoted to critical problems of human relations, world affairs and the revitalization of democratic values. Charles Dollard, president of the corporation, states in the Corporation's thirty-seventh annual report, that reflecting the corporation's growing concern with these problems, grants amounting to $3,421,000 were made in fields of social science and world affairs during the fiscal year, which ended on September 30, 1948.